Belgian death-grind outfit Aborted just celebrated their 20th Anniversary. Well, last year they did. But think of it. 20 years of death, grind, and chopping up listeners into little sanguine bits. The group’s new album, Retrogore, isn’t too far removed from its predecessors, but where it stands on its own, is in the songwriting.

Dungeon Bastards
10-Sided DIEDIEKILLKILL
dB rating: 8/10

The anti-everything iconoclasm this election season deserves.

One email for a chance to make your collection 10 (ripping, crushing, raging, etc. etc., you get the point) entries heavier. 

Denver’s Blood Incantation have crafted an epic slab of death metal that demands your immediate attention. No bullshit.

On this week’s Demo:listen, we stumble upon a brood of cosmic provocateurs in Massachusett’s Garroted. 

Derkéta‘s Metal Mary has all the tips and tricks necessary to keep your vehicle running all the way through festival season in this edition of Space Truckin’.

Flashback 1982. Hollywood, California. The various members of newly formed W.A.S.P., still high on George Miller’s Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior aesthetic, are in a friend’s metal shop.

Remember in 1998 when Entombed went noise rock? About that…

A manga-themed progressive metal band that sounds like a cross between Ghost, Faith No More and the Mars Volta pimping an ‘80s/VHS-quality surrealistic, horror-themed video as part of the celebration of the release of their fifth album. Really?